Question

I have an element with id=message1mark. The following code will run the two alerts when the page loads regardless of the position on the mouse. Any help would be appreciated.

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function(){

jQuery("#message1mark").hover(alert("on"), alert("off"));
}); 
</script> 

Answer 1

You need to wrap those alerts in functions:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#message1mark").hover(function(){alert("on");}, function(){alert("off");});
}); 

Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/eJzKr/